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15 aspiring filmmakers win Student Academy Awards

The Associated Press

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05/16/2014 04:41:00 PM MDT

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FILE - This undated publicity file photo provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences shows, from left, John Lasseter, winner, Animation Achievement Award "Lady and the Lamp," at the 1979 (6th) Student Academy Awards ceremony, Don Honicky, head of college relations for the Bell System, and presenter film animator T. Hee in Beverly Hills, Calif. Fifteen aspiring filmmakers are joining a club that includes Lasseter, Trey Parker and Spike Lee: They?ve won Student Academy Awards. The film academy announced its 2014 honorees Friday, May 16, 2014, in alternative, animation, documentary, narrative and foreign films. (AP Photos/AMPAS, Long Photography, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifteen aspiring filmmakers are joining a club that includes John Lasseter, Trey Parker and Spike Lee: They've won Student Academy Awards.

The film academy announced its 2014 honorees Friday in alternative, animation, documentary, narrative and foreign films. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be presented at a free public ceremony June 7 at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles.